On 8/2/13 9:33 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote: > Alexander: > >>> Looks like the website is broken? >> >> Yeah, this is an ongoing issue. > > Oh, thanks. > >> The backup site doesn't run its own copy of the package database scripts. > > The location was pointed to from the main fink page so I don't > understand why you call it a 'backup'. I also don't understand why it > would need to run something. It's unclear to me even what the result > of looking at the packages page is even if things work! >
I've been with the project for 12 years, so I kind of know what I'm talking about, usually. The real main page is at "www.finkproject.org", and that is down. fink.thetis.ig42.org _is_ a backup. >> There's no way to tell definitively, but my guess is that you first >> checked before you downloaded a set of package descriptions. > > I needed to selfupdate fink and then was able to install wget. > Thanks. > That confirms my guess. :-) Before you do the first selfupdate Fink only has a minimal set of package descriptions available. > Tom > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > Senior Investigator > National Institutes of Health > National Cancer Institute > Center for Cancer Research > Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/(current link) > http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
